Effective sales presentations

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Developing & Delivering Effective Sales Presentations Cheri Bales Hannah/Gold Communications


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40 words or less.


Successful Sales Requires…  Listening  Attitude  Relationships  Orientation  Adaptability  Service  And…?…


Getting Started  The Challenge of Preparing  Know Your Audience 

Accept Differences

Selecting content

First Impressions

 Avoid Assumptions  Listen for Language  Handling questions  Closing the deal


What You Say  Language Use  Vocal Fillers  Humor  Accents and Pronunciation

 Content  Be Brief  Paraphrase  Use Simple Language  Group Similar Ideas Together Darren LaCroix 2001 Public Speaking World Champion


What You Say  Concluding  Prepare the customer  Summarize main Ideas  Answer questions  Ask for the sale

 Handling Questions  Anticipate  Focus  Control  Respond


What You Don't Say  Nonverbal factors affecting sales outcomes:  Cultural and personal Influences  Space, touch, eye contact  Time, status, power

 Persuasion  Emotion  Intellect  Belonging


What THEY Don't Say  Customer Feedback  Nonverbals  Drifting  Back on track  Walk away?  How to decide…


The Big Three…  Space  Proxemics: body orientation, positioning, territorial behavior

 Gaze  Gaze: eye contact, nonreciprocal gaze, mutual gaze, gaze aversion

 Touch  Touch: reciprocal touch, nonreciprocal touch, mutual touch

Approach-avoidance signals express interest or disinterest in others through the use of space, gaze and touch.


Research  Research Objective

Based on the aspects of approach-avoidance theory, does the manipulation of nonverbal communication channels, during a sales encounter, have a positive effect on the success of the encounter?

 Channels      

Propinquity (Space) Appearance Gaze Haptics (Touch) Time Identification


Questions? Cheri Bales Hannah/Gold Communications cheri.bales@wmich.edu 269.341.3786


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